Britons becoming afraid of young people - report

[buckthesystem]

Looks like years of extreme political correctness have come back to bite British people on the tail. It would have "hit a plateau" just about the time most young people today were young children, and here are the results:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3836850a12,00.html

[jeffnevins]

Cool. Nice job.

[Gerioke]

Halifax has it's share of juvenile delinquency, not to mention all the school shootings happening all over N. America. The world beyond our homes is a dangerous place.

God help us.

[Northern lass]

Not all people are intimidated; a few years ago there were a group of youngsters causing problems on the street on which I live. I grabbed the largest of the bunch and marched him home, explained the problem to his mother and father and left.

As I was walking down the garden path I could hear the cries ouch mam don

[amor]

Halifax has it's share of juvenile delinquency, not to mention all the school shootings happening all over N. America. The world beyond our homes is a dangerous place.

God help us.

An element of paranoia here, the world in general is really not that dangerous. Having said that the most dangerous place is the home, most violence is domestic.

[JustinM]

Ok, let's abandon our homes and depend on society to shelter, clothe, feed and protect us.

[Northern lass]

Halifax has it's share of juvenile delinquency, not to mention all the school shootings happening all over N. America. The world beyond our homes is a dangerous place.

God help us.

An element of paranoia here, the world in general is really not that dangerous. Having said that the most dangerous place is the home, most violence is domestic.

I take it you don't live in the UK?

[Gerioke]

Halifax has it's share of juvenile delinquency, not to mention all the school shootings happening all over N. America. The world beyond our homes is a dangerous place.

God help us.

An element of paranoia here, the world in general is really not that dangerous. Having said that the most dangerous place is the home, most violence is domestic.

The only violence in my home is when my kids wrastle with me. You can't be very old, as I have noticed an incredible increase of violence in the world, including domestic violence.

When I was 6 years old I had the run of the town and went on many adventures by myself. Now I can't let my kids leave the property without adult supervision for fear of somebody snatching them or sexually assaulting them.

Yes the world is a scary place and I feel bad for the freedoms that my kids will never know.

[Pizzaguy]

I've been saying it for years. The world is going soft and the "social-worker" mentality is to blame. We're experiencing the uprising of the first "untouchable" generation. We take control and discipline out of the hands of adults and the kids get a skewed picture of morality and social skills, leading them to "do what they want" with little fear of consequence. By the time they get to an age of self-acountability the damage is way too far done. As Parents and teachers we have only ourselves to blame.

I agree, but don't blame me. I was raised in the "old school" and so were my boys.

Got a problem with your kid? A slap on the behind will help.

Got a problem with a teenager? A slap on the mouth works wonders.

"Time outs" and "please, don't do that" are for idiot parents.

[buckthesystem]

Halifax has it's share of juvenile delinquency, not to mention all the school shootings happening all over N. America. The world beyond our homes is a dangerous place.

God help us.

An element of paranoia here, the world in general is really not that dangerous. Having said that the most dangerous place is the home, most violence is domestic.

The only violence in my home is when my kids wrastle with me. You can't be very old, as I have noticed an incredible increase of violence in the world, including domestic violence.

When I was 6 years old I had the run of the town and went on many adventures by myself. Now I can't let my kids leave the property without adult supervision for fear of somebody snatching them or sexually assaulting them.

Yes the world is a scary place and I feel bad for the freedoms that my kids will never know.

I am 51 and as far as I can see society largely hasn't got much more violent in the last forty years or so. Just the attitude of parents and as a result the attitude of youth.

Even since my kids have grown up, attitudes towards (very much perceived) "safety" have gone overboard. My youngest is nearly 21 and when he was at playcentre I was on the gang of parents who designed and built the playground. I was absolutely mortified just four or five years later to go back with another parent and see that it had been badly "wimped down": The slide had been altered so it was no more than 1.2 metres off the ground, the swings had been altered so they were virtually swinging cages with plastic mats underneath them, our wonderful "zoom slide" that we had built with a nine foot high platform had been cut down to 1.2 metres (that apparently is the new standard - the hight of playground equipment is not to be over 1.2 metres) and the "flying fox" had been eliminated. This is just the "tip of the iceberg" of the "wimping down" that has been done in society over the last 20 years or so, and is just a bit of what happened to this particular playcentre (the "water trough" had been taken away as it was considered "dangerous" for children to play in water, even with an adult's supervision).

Youth have grown up with nothing to challenge them any more. So they are incredibly frustrated and take it out on society as a whole.

This is just part of the PC coming back to bite us in the tail.

Kids today can't have pocket knives, fireworks, free access to the river, ride bikes freely or play games that are "too physical".

We've got to pay for what we have done to our youth.